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The recent shipment of pork from Europe's
largest pork producer, Danish Crown, from
Denmark to Australia involved pork packaged
in an all-natural controlled atmosphere
environment, en route for a 56-day transport.
The product was not frozen or packaged in
vacuum packaging. Previously, the company
tested land shipments of pork in Chile and
the Netherlands.
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new market opportunities for BluWrap,"
says Mark Barnekow, BluWrap's CEO.
"Until now, our efforts have been focused
on shipping seafood using ocean containers
so that producers and suppliers can use a
more environmentally friendly way to bring
their product to market. With this successful
shipment, we expect to thoughtfully extend our
technology to include pork and look forward to
working with other high volume proteins like
chicken, beef, and lamb."
Tom Petersen, senior manager of quality
production at Danish Crown, was on hand
in Denmark for the packaging and later, in
Australia, when the product was opened
there. "The pork shipped using the BluWrap
packaging technology looked identical on the
day of opening as it was the day we packed it,
despite being 56 days in transit without any
ice or freezing. Our Australian customer was
extremely pleased with the color, texture and
yields on the product throughout the entire
process," he reports.
The market for such shipments is already
showing signs of growth, as consumers
increasingly demonstrate interest in fresh
versus frozen food, including proteins.
BluWrap reports that customers in China
and Japan have requested shipments of fresh
pork from their foreign suppliers to various
local markets. In the seafood sector, BluWrap
recently partnered with a Norwegian executive
to explore the use of the packaging technology
in that company's salmon industry.
Back in the US, BluWrap is listed on the
US Food & Drug Administration's "Green
List," which allows producers from around the
world to use BluWrap technology to ship fresh
seafood into this country.

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